[Mediawiki-l] Local timezone

Tue Mar 27 14:52:41 UTC 2007

Sorry about the "$".  I was copying from a another display...

The default seems to be GMT.  It would be nice to have the browser
installer ask for a timezone.  But its a wiki meaning it might be
accessed from anywhere in the world as Wikipedia is, so I imagine that
GMT would be the natural default.

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sigafoos [mailto:davesigafoos at sanmar.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Local timezone

Thanks for that .. 

I changed the 3rd line to $oldtz=getenv("TZ");  (missing the $)

At first we were getting HTTP.EXE errors (love them as being informative
:) but then worked through each line and got it working.  Error appeared
to need the browser tab closed and reopened.

It does appear to be working correctly now.  

Thanks so much ..

Where would I ask about why the install did not set this up?

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
PICK Guy
206-770-5585
davesigafoos at sanmar.com 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan,
James (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:47
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Try adding the following to your LocalSettings.php file.  

#Set Default Timezone
$wgLocaltimezone = "America/Los_Angeles"; oldtz = getenv("TZ");
putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone"); $wgLocalTZoffset = date("Z") / 3600;
putenv("TZ=$oldtz"); 

This might not work properly if you're using a Mediawiki version newer
than 1.7, which uses use hours, not minutes.  In the case when you're
using version 1.7 or newer, the "3600" in the above code would be
replaced by the number "60".  Here's a website that helps explain it and
other options: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sigafoos [mailto:davesigafoos at sanmar.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Local timezone

Gabrial,

We are testing this on an winXP box.  Our clock is correct for our time
zone and the patch for windows was added before the fact.

Everything we do in Mediawiki shows as 7 hours behind gmt.  So it
appears that there might be 2 issues

1) Mediawiki does not know that I am on Pacific time at all.  It appears
to be trying to show GMT as everything is ahead by 7 hours.
2) Mediawiki is not recognizing the 'New and Improved' Daylight Savings
Time (since it is showing 7 hours not 8)

We might just need some Tommyknockers to clean this whole time bit up.

More ideas?

Thanks

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gabriel
Millerd
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 23:54
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Local timezone

On 3/26/07, Dave Sigafoos <davesigafoos at sanmar.com> wrote:
>
>
> Also, I would *guess* from the PST8PDT that this is 8 hours off of
GMT,
> when currently we are 7 hours.
>

Here is a guess.

I will assume your from Seattle, Washington USA from your signature's
area code and thus your TZ is PST8PDT . That is the abbreviation for
"Pacific Standard Time/ Pacific Daylight Time" used in United States:
California, Idaho (parts), Nevada, Oregon (parts), Washington. This
differs from PST7PDT in ways you can read here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zones#UTC_.E2.88.92_8.2C_U

The various 'leap year, time zone offset, daylight savings on, daylight
savings off information is usually kept in some sort of file on your
system. For example on a Unix Debian box its
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific.

Any how, these packages (libc infact on Deb) that provide that
information need to be updated or tweaked with the new because the DST
is three weeks earlier than before.

Linux Example:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.3.2.ds1-
22sarge5/changelog
Others:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305056
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst

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